douser

I'd have gotten a douser but there was only one place to dig anyway.

The douser is usually part of the lamphouse, and may be manually or automatically operated.

A douser walked onto the ice and found two other likely areas, but a half hour of diving produced only blue hands and chattering teeth.

"Highbulp got royal wine mine, real douser."

Dave Rattiner, the senior defensive back, took the Harry Carson role as the douser and performed well.

As a chemist, he developed the fire-fighting equipment in his department, as well as the human-sized robot Big Douser.

These instruments typically require a large amount of power (between 2 kW and 12 kW) and must be dimmed mechanically with the use of an electronic douser.

Some projectors have a second, electrically controlled douser that is used for changeovers (sometimes called a "changeover douser" or "changeover shutter").

In early 1952, Wiley, together with Fred Heisley and Bill Welty, constructed a concept validation system known as DOUSER ("Doppler Unbeamed Search Radar").

As the spring progressed, some grasses grew, a little water a douser might have found welled up from the ground above the pond, and several well-meaning friends brought gifts, like the three wise men, from their own fecund waters.

The projectionist would start the incoming projector with the changeover douser closed as the first mark (the motor cue) appeared; the second projector would be threaded with the incoming reel parked 8 seconds of countdown ahead of the start of the picture section.

Some projectors have a third, mechanically controlled douser that automatically closes when the projector slows down (called a "fire shutter" or "fire douser"), to protect the film if the projector stops while the first douser is still open.

"I had just talked to Bill White, Ted Turner, Stan Kasten and John Schuerholz, and was throwing it to Jim Gray and I saw somebody doing something to my left and felt the tub of ice water fall on me," said McCarver, who asked an associate director to identify the douser.

During the actual operation of a changeover, the two projectors use an interconnected electrical control connected to the changeover button so that as soon as the button is pressed, the changeover douser on the outgoing projector is closed in sync with the changeover douser on the incoming projector opening.